Slavoj Žižek Addresses Iranians During 2022 Protests
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Dear friends:
It’s not enough to say that I’m fully in solidarity with your struggle with the “Zan, Zendegi, Azadi”1 protests. It’s much more that I want to say.
Your struggle has literally—this is not a rhetorical exaggeration—world historical importance, because it serves a lesson also to us in the so-called developed West.
We have our own feminism. In its predominant form, it is the so-called politically correct #MeToo feminism, where it is clear that it mostly attracts and mobilizes (upper) middle-class women.